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Most players are terrible
I have yet to find a player that correctly manages the "database" of media clips on my computer. Back up is difficult. File sharing on my home network is difficult. I could list ten other issues that for some reason no one wants to address. I think its because no one is really paying attention to the design of these products as products. Instead they're following past practices, and focusing on how they can get in the loop for money spent on downloadable content. Some players blow my mind with the inefficiency they embrace so that they can throw "offers" in my face and this is on purchased software. As far as I'm concerned the media player for the not-so-distant future has yet to be invented.
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Destined for a fight  Boot_Agnostic | 12/22/05
Don't pity, give a round of applause  mdemuth | 12/22/05
I agree  opensourcepro | 12/22/05
Based on Firefox technology ...  worknman | 12/22/05
I don't know what to think about this.  nucrash | 12/22/05
Winamp is a collection of lost opportunities  escoles@... | 12/22/05
Incorrect on ID3 tags  too_much green_tea | 12/22/05
Did they have to pick such a bad example to copy?  escoles@... | 12/22/05
From A Media Player Convert  nikoli | 12/22/05
I have only one problem with iTunes....  hal9000mx | 12/22/05
21000 songs  springerj | 12/22/05
????  An_Axe_to_Grind | 12/22/05
Say what?  woot! | 12/22/05
Most people just switch silently  voska | 12/22/05
I don't think that you actually understand what he's saying...  mastercko | 12/23/05
forgot something  mastercko | 12/23/05
Did they have to pick such a bad example to copy?  ckesner | 12/22/05
I found...  zaphod@... | 12/22/05
Not exactly original  msfletch | 12/22/05
Hmmm  juhlster1021h | 12/22/05
hmm...  mastercko | 12/23/05
What's so "pioneering" about this?  techboy_z | 12/22/05
Pioneers of -  sometime | 12/23/05
Is this guy crazy?  ITTech001 | 12/22/05
I agree...  BitTwiddler | 12/22/05
Groovy  tic swayback | 12/22/05
We don't need more reverse engineering ...  worknman | 12/22/05
I'm not talking about stealing anything  tic swayback | 12/22/05
Feature Suggestion  rscshagger | 12/22/05
I-Tunes is terrible  8bird | 12/22/05
Most players are terrible  mediavant | 12/22/05
iTunes worst than most players  joethemacfan | 12/23/05
My iTunes horror story  bbbaldie_z | 12/27/05
My iTunes horror story  bbbaldie_z | 12/27/05
Too buggy, too invasive  Kerensky97 | 12/27/05
Sounds like a Windows problem  GoPower | 12/27/05
ha! too funny  doh123 | 12/27/05
I use a Mac so I won't have to RTFM!!! heh heh heh  Laff | 12/27/05
Windows Media Player for me!  314 | 12/22/05
Err... Winamp isn't WMP. (n/t)  Twey | 12/24/05
Where's Google?  StanB | 12/22/05
Preferences vs. new -  sometime | 12/23/05
No thanks, I like having 100+GB of MP3s on my HD!!!  xunil skcor | 12/23/05
Billions and billions of tunes  john616 | 12/24/05
Creative?  nikkidkat | 12/24/05

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